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...Announcement-In line with our new policy we will now accept business from persons of recognized social position even if they are not related to the du Ponts-Laird, Bissel & Meeds...
...Passed a bill to reimburse one Robert Laird of Pennsylvania for burial expenses to the amount of $113 incurred by him when the War Department sent him the body of an unknown person in place of that of his son killed in France. (Went to the House...
Lafayette, unbeaten, took on the Leopard's spots and sought to pounce on Penn, also unbeaten. To no avail. A field goal by Chief Leopard Berry was wiped out by a pass by Chief Quaker McGraw, caught and carried by one Joe Laird. The Leopards went back to Easton, dark bruises mingled with their spots and the score: Penn 6, Lafayette 3. The Quakers rejoiced in being the only unbeaten, untied Eastern team of the season, Pittsburgh having tied Penn's nearest rival, Syracuse...
...reason which Dr. Laird assigns in the kindness of his heart for this sinister state of affairs is that college students go mad because they live a "highly competitive intellectual existence, and any mental handicap is quickly noticed." One would like to think so. Unfortunately, however, the unprejudiced observer is driven to the conclusion that though this may be a contributing cause, the real reason is not to be found in so superficial an examination. It is also obvious that the Colgate scientist has not had the benefit of a heart to heart talk with Mr. F. H. Hoffman...
...saying has it that there is very little difference between the genius and the fool. If this is so, and Dr. Laird's observations are accurate, the intrepid spirit who dares to undergo four gruelling years of college life is taking an impressive gamble with the gods of chance. When he emerges from the strain of intellectual competition, or as one critic would prefer, the pernicious influences of a vapid university atmosphere, he may find himself a second Shakespeare, a second Dante, a second Leonardo; of his family may discover to their horror that all he can remember...